Dr. B. (Beyza) Sümer
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap
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Publications
2026
- Laing, C., & Sümer, B. (2026). One size does not fit all: The case of iconic bootstrapping for language development. In The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics). Oxford University Press.
2025
- Gur, C., & Sümer, B. (2025). Static versus Dynamic Stimuli in Narrative Retelling: A Task Design Study in Sign Language Research. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Karadoller, D., Sümer, B., Ozer, D., Unal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2025). Gesture as a mechanism of change in the interface between spatial language and cognitive development.. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2025). Advancing the multimodal language acquisition framework through collaborative dialogue. First Language, 45(6), 797-809. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251379276 [details]
- Ritmeester, J., Sümer, B., Boonstra, M., de Meulder, M., van der Aa, B., & Roelofsen, F. (2025). From Words to Sentences: Designing and Evaluating a Parent-Facing Sign Language Learning App.. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Ritmeester, J., Sümer, B., Boonstra, M., de Meulder, M., van der Aa, B., & Roelofsen, F. (2025). Hearing parents learning sign language: A call for systemic changes. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education .
- Ritmeester, J., Sümer, B., Boonstra, M., de Meulder, M., van der Aa, B., & Roelofsen, F. (2025). Navigating sign language learning: insights from hearing parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education . https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enaf059
- Schiefner, A., Roelofsen, F., & Sümer, B. (2025). Iconicity and Transparency in Dutch Sign Language. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2025). Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. Sign Language & Linguistics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
Sümer, B., Karadöller, D. Z., & Özyürek, A. (2025). First Language Acquisition from a Multimodal Perspective: Insights from Speech, Gesture, and Sign. First Language, 45(6), 673-710. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241290678- Ünal, E., Kırbaşoğlu, K., Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2025). Gesture reduces mapping difficulties in the development of spatial language depending on the complexity of spatial relations. Cognitive Science, 49(2), Article e70046. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70046
2024
- Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Unal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2024). Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined. Journal of Child Language, 51(4), 876–902. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000642 [details]
- Ritmeester, J., Sümer, B., Boonstra, M., de Meulder, M., van der Aa, B., & Roelofsen, F. (2024). ZINinNGT: A Mobile Tool to Aid Hearing Parents Learning Dutch Sign Language. In ASSETS 2024: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility : October 28th-October 30th, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Article 82 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663548.3688529 [details]
2023
- Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2023). Late sign language exposure does not modulate the relation between spatial language and spatial memory in deaf children and adults. Memory & Cognition, 51(3), 582-600. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01281-7 [details]
2022
- Gür, C., & Sümer, B. (2022). Learning to introduce referents in narration is resilient to the effects of late sign language exposure. Sign Language & Linguistics, 25(2), 205-234. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.21004.gur [details]
- Kan, U., Gökgöz, K., Sümer, B., Tamyürek, E., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Emergence of negation in a Turkish homesign system: Insights from the family context. In A. Ravignani, R. Asano, D. Valente, F. Ferretti, S. Hartmann, M. Hayashi, Y. Jadoul, M. Martins, Y. Oseki, E. D. Rodrigues, O. Vasileva, & S. Wacewicz (Eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (pp. 387-389). Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE). https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549 [details]
- Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Cross-modal investigation of event component omissions in language development: A comparison of signing and speaking children. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(8), 1023-1039 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2042336 [details]
- Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Language Use in Deaf Children with Early-signing versus Late-signing Deaf Parents. Frontiers in Communication, 6, Article 804900. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.804900 [details]
2021
- Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2021). Effects and Non-Effects of Late Language Exposure on Spatial Language Development: Evidence from Deaf Adults and Children. Language Learning and Development, 17(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2020.1823846 [details]
- Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2021). Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: Evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture. In 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021): Comparative Cognition Animal Minds : Vienna, Austria, 26-29 July 2021 (Vol. 1, pp. 672-678). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 43). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vp063gj [details]
2020
- Manhardt, F., Özyürek, A., Sümer, B., Mulder, K., Karadöller, D. Z., & Brouwer, S. (2020). Iconicity in Spatial Language Guides Visual Attention: A Comparison Between Signers’ and Speakers’ Eye Gaze During Message Preparation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 46(9), 1735-1753. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000843 [details]
- Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2020). No effects of modality in development of locative expressions of space in signing and speaking children. Journal of Child Language, 47(6), 1101–1131. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000928 [details]
Prize / grant
- Sümer, B. (2021). ELANPort: Web-based training for ELAN.
Membership / relevant position
- Sümer, B. & Sallandre, M.-A. (2025). Co-founder of Sign Language Acquisition Network (SiLAN), Sign Language Acquisition Network.
Talk / presentation
- Sümer, B. (speaker) (2026). Spatial language and spatial cognition in signed language and gesture, Workshop on Spatial Cognition and Spatial Communication in Ageing .
- Dikyuva, H. (speaker), Özyürek, A. (speaker), Sümer, B. (speaker) & Pfau, R. (speaker) (9-10-2025). Negation in Turkish Sign Language: A corpus-based analysis of manual and nonmanual markers, Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics, Tartu.
- Dikyuva, H. (speaker), Pfau, R. (speaker), Sümer, B. (speaker) & Özyürek, A. (speaker) (10-7-2025). The interplay of manual and nonmanual markers of negation in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): A corpus-based analysis, 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Nijmegen.
- Dikyuva, H. (speaker), Özyürek, A. (speaker), Sümer, B. (speaker) & Pfau, R. (speaker) (8-7-2025). Distribution of different head movements with different manual negators in Turkish Sign Language: A dialogic corpus study, 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Nijmegen.
- Vachaudez, S. (speaker), Pfau, R. (speaker) & Sümer, B. (speaker) (15-1-2025). Thoughts vs. actions: Particle choice in Adamorobe Sign Language negation, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Addis Ababa.
- Vachaudez, S. (speaker), Pfau, R. (speaker) & Sümer, B. (speaker) (10-9-2024). Thoughts vs. actions: Particle choice in Adamorobe Sign Language negation, 21st International Conference of Linguistics, Poznań.
- Sümer, B. (speaker) & Pfau, R. (speaker) (22-8-2024). Complex motion predicates in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): A developmental perspective, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki.
- Vachaudez, S. (speaker), Pfau, R. (speaker) & Sümer, B. (speaker) (8-8-2024). Thoughts vs. actions: Particle choice in Adamorobe Sign Language negation (poster), Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Research, Ann Arbor.
- Sümer, B. (speaker) & Pfau, R. (speaker) (11-9-2023). Manner and Path in Serial Verb constructions, Workshop 'Serial Verbs Across Modalities', Paris.
Others
- Schiefner, A. (participant), Roelofsen, F. (participant) & Sümer, B. (participant) (28-4-2026). Bilingualism Matters Symposium, Milan (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Oomen, M. (participant), Sümer, B. (participant), Roelofsen, F. (participant), Pfau, R. (participant) & Dikyuva, H. (participant) (2026). Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sümer, B. (participant) (2025). Sign Lex day (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
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Universiteit Radboud Nijmegen
Postdoc onderzoeker
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Universiteit Radboud Nijmegen
Sümer, B., Karadöller, D. Z., & Özyürek, A. (2025). First Language Acquisition from a Multimodal Perspective: Insights from Speech, Gesture, and Sign. First Language, 45(6), 673-710.